Prema Racing
The headquarters of the Prema Racing team is a brick factory building covered with signs of time, but that's all on the outside.
After walking into the factory under the guidance of the staff, Qin Miao found that the factory was full of modern facilities, both in terms of decoration and internal equipment.
Then Qin Miao carried her luggage to Luo Xin's office.
The smile on the other party's face was very sincere when he saw Qin Miao. The wrinkles on his brow and the corners of his eyes indicated his excellent mood at this time. When he saw Qin Miao, he seemed to see the bright future of his own team.
"Welcome to Prema Racing, Qin! I have been waiting for a long time, and I am looking forward to our cooperation in the next year." As soon as he approached, Luo Xin happily gave Qin Miao a big hug without even shaking hands. .
Hugging each other and gently patting each other on the back, Qin Miao said seriously: "Thank you, thank you Mr. Luo Xin for trusting me. I will try my best to complete every game in the coming season. "
Luo Xin smiled and said directly, regardless of the work he was busy with just now: "I think you are ready to start work. Can I take you to go through the onboarding process and handle the next things?"
After saying that, he took Qin Miao to the inside of the factory.
Although the F2 car is the same every season, the team will also make certain fine-tuning of the car based on the driver's driving habits and physical data to adapt to the driver.
Today Qin Miao came to the team. In addition to taking the team's makeup photos and recording a video for the team's promotion, he also needed to measure Qin Miao's hands and his body data after sitting in the monocoque of the racing car, and Based on this data, Qin Miao customized his steering wheel and racing seat for this season.
These things are like a soldier's gun, a cavalry's saddle, and a tank's artillery. They are extremely important and naturally need to be prepared at the beginning of the season.
How can a soldier go to the battlefield without weapons and armor at hand? The racing seat and steering wheel are Qin Miao's armor and weapons.
Because after a period of time it will be time to test the performance of the new car, the running-in between the driver and the car, and the driver's adjustment. You can just test these to see if the racing seat and steering wheel are comfortable to use. If not, There is still time to adjust if appropriate.
What flattered Qin Miao was that when he was busy with all this, Luo Xin stayed with Qin Miao the whole time like an ordinary worker who did his duty.
It was as if he was not a team leader with a heavy workload to deal with, but just an ordinary staff member responsible for receiving Qin Miao.
"Qin, there is one last thing, and that is the issue of the driver's number."
Qin Miao nodded and asked, "Do I need to choose a driver number myself?"
Rosin smiled and shook his head and said: "No, no, no, only F1 drivers can choose the driver number they want. Driver numbers for all FIA events except F1 are applied for by the team. You can only use the driver number given by the team." number."
At this point, Rosin changed the topic: "But the good news is that you still have a choice, because our team has four driver numbers that can be used, and Mick has already used the number 20, and currently we also have 21, 22 and You can choose on the 23rd.”
"So, which number do you want?"
This really stumped Qin Miao. He had never thought about the driver number before.
Now that he was suddenly asked and given a choice, Qin Miao didn't know which one to choose.
Then Qin Miao used a very conventional method of ordering troops and generals, and directly chose No. 22.
"The 22nd."
"Of course, but I'm a little curious why you chose this number."
Qin Miao shrugged: "I chose randomly..."
Luo Xin also shrugged like Qin Miao: "Okay, your decision..."
"Okay, from now on the number 22 will appear on your racing suit and car."
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Qin Miao has been busy since arriving in Vicenza and finding Luo Xin.
Basically, I ran here, tested my physical fitness, customized a new racing suit, ran there to test my eyesight, and then moved to another place to adjust the size of the helmet. In short, I never stopped.
However, most of the troubles were solved on the first day, and Luo Xin arranged a new dormitory for Qin Miao.
After all, it is just a private racing team. Prema cannot be as rich as Ferrari and directly build a community for its employees to live in.
Therefore, the dormitory arranged for Qin Miao is just a local B&B. For foreigners like Qin Miao, local B&Bs are unique and cheap, and the price-performance ratio is very good.
Although the living area of this B&B is much larger than the staff dormitory in Maranello, with more than 90 square meters, and even a small attic where you can store some sundries, the environment is compared to that in Maranello. The edge is much different.
However, because we live in an urban area, the transportation and surrounding infrastructure are fairly complete.
The only thing that Qin Miao and Qiu Meng find interesting is that their B&B has a back door, and the back door faces a small river, and the surrounding houses are basically built along the river, with every household facing the river. There is a back door in each direction, and there are many boats on the river.
Vicenza is only 60 kilometers away from the famous water city of Venice, so it is understandable that there is a bit of Venetian heritage here.
However, after seeing the river, Qin Miao looked at Qiu Meng with some curiosity and made a constructive suggestion: "If I block the river and build a toll station, and charge 0.5 euros for a boat to cross, do you think it can be done in one year?" How much money do you make?”
Facing the ideas that Qin Miao came up with with my power of thinking, Qiu Meng was stunned for a while even though she knew that Qin Miao was sometimes out of tune.
Then he hit Qin Miao on the head angrily and went back to the room to pack his luggage.
Qin Miao simply made a joke. After rubbing the affected area, he moved a stool and sat by the river. He took out his mobile phone and ordered a set of computers and peripherals needed for computer play.
Because Qin Miao is still in Ferrari's youth training, Qin Miao still lives in the house in Maranello, so Qin Miao did not bring the computer and simulator in the house.
But after ordering these things, Qin Miao looked at the slowly flowing river in front of him and ordered a fishing rod that was not too expensive.
If you get tired of playing games, you can come to the back door and become a fisherman.
I just don’t know if the fish caught in this river can be eaten...
As Qiu Meng's voice came: "It's time to eat!"
After Qin Miao heard this, he stood up and closed the back door. Although it was strange for Qin Miao, who had never lived in such a place, to find that the back door was a small river, he also knew that mosquito eggs are most likely to breed in the water. So it's safer to close the door if nothing happens.
The busy day today ends here.
After a silent night, Qin Miao got up very early the next day. After all, it was his first official day at work, and he still needed to give his boss and colleagues a better impression.
Qin Miao's job today is mainly to get to know the crew members assigned to him by Prema. From now on, these people will be responsible for Qin Miao's TR on the field, tire changing, training, vehicle maintenance and other tasks.
It can be said that starting from today, within one year from now, these people will be one with Qin Miao, and they will both prosper and suffer.
Unlike F1, there are only seven tire changers in F2, namely the front jack technician and the rear jack technician, followed by the tire changers for the four tires and the technician holding the indicator board to show the driver.
These positions are all held by technicians. While they are adjusting the vehicle, they also have to change tires. To be honest, it is not easy.
Moreover, the tire changers of two drivers in a team are the same.
Qin Miao's game engineer, who is responsible for communicating with Qin Miao in TR, has the same responsibility as Jeff who communicates with players in the game "F1 2019".
His name is Terry French. He is a somewhat stout middle-aged man. He is about 1.8 meters tall and looks relatively ordinary. However, his hair is uncharacteristically extremely thick, which is not what foreigners of his age should have. That kind of baldness.
In addition to him, the other one is Qin Miao's chief technician. This one is a Chinese named Sui Wentao. He looks to be in his mid-twenties, has a straight head and looks energetic, has well-developed arm muscles, and smiles like Leclerc. Yes, there will be two shallow dimples on the face.
Although he has an Asian appearance, he is actually an Asian-British man. Because his parents came from China to do business, he was born in the UK and can also speak Chinese. However, like Zhou Guanyu's previous problem, he likes to speak like Use inverted sentences.
These two are the most important people in this team to Qin Miao.
One provides Qin Miao with key information and more detailed data-based feedback on the car during the game, and the other is to debug the car for Qin Miao before the game and adjust the car to the state Qin Miao wants.
Qin Miao could not offend these two people, so Qin Miao behaved very politely when facing these two people.
Of course, a bowl of water must be leveled, and Qin Miao should also be given due respect to the other people.
After getting acquainted with Qin Miao, they each introduced themselves.
Qin Miao's race engineer French is only responsible for sitting on the podium, and he can only sit on the podium during the competition, because any information on the field must be conveyed to Qin Miao who is sitting in the racing car.
As for Qin Miao's chief technician Sui Wentao, it was more difficult. He was also one of the tire changers and was responsible for the rear jack of the car.
In addition to these two people, there are also Steve and Alvin who belong to Qin Miao's team.
The two of them are responsible for changing the tire on the left side of the car, and are also responsible for helping Qin Miao debug the car.
These four people are all members of Qin Miao's crew.
As for the other people, they are all from Mick Schumacher's team. They came here mainly because they needed to change Qin Miao's tires during the race, so they came to get to know Qin Miao.
After greeting each other, the people in Mick's crew left, leaving only Qin Miao and four others.
After thinking for a while with some confusion, Qin Miao asked curiously: "Aren't there seven people on the crew changing tires? Why do we only have three here? Does Mick's crew have one more person than us?"
Sui Wentao explained: "That's right, but Mick's crew has not just one more person than us, but three more people. As for the reason and the identities of those extra guys... you come from Ferrari's youth training Yes, it’s impossible not to know, right?”
Qin Miao clicked her tongue and changed the topic: "What is our work content today?"
At this time, Frankie spoke: "Our main task today is to get to know each other, and then deal with some miscellaneous things. The day's work is almost over.
We still have to wait about a month for the new cars to arrive this season. By then, we will be busy with things like getting familiar with the structure of the cars and redesigning the car paint. After that, the opening game of the new season will begin. "
Qin Miao raised his eyebrows: "So we don't have any specific work content today?"
Franky smiled and nodded: "That's right, come on Qin, we are happiest every time a new person joins us, because the team will reimburse most of our expenses for outings."
So, Qin Miao, who originally thought she was coming to work, was dragged out by other crew members to spend the day eating and drinking.
As expected of a local, Qin Miao originally thought that if he went out to play, he would go to the world-famous water city Venice. After all, Venice is only 60 kilometers away from here, and it only takes an hour to drive there, but they took Qin Miao with them. Went to some local tourist attractions in Vicenza.
This place perfectly fits Qin Miao's fantasy about Venice. It is also a village on the water. The water is very clear, there are flocks of flowers and birds, and there are not many people. Most of them are locals. Food is very cheap. The only disadvantage is that it is remote. , ordinary tourists simply cannot find this kind of place.
Because tourists don't know this kind of place, there are few people here and the environment is very good.
Led by the car crew, several people came to a local restaurant.
Entertaining foreign guests and eating the most famous local dishes is a kind of treat.
Because this time was similar to the Commerce Bureau, the purpose was to build a good relationship with colleagues, so Qin Miao did not bring Qiu Meng with him when he went out to play.
But to be honest, although the environment was nice and the food was unique to the local area, Qin Miao found that the outlook on life she had developed at home was somewhat different from that of people abroad.
Therefore, when communicating with these people, it is somewhat uncomfortable and difficult to understand.
And after all, they just met each other, so the best way to shorten the distance between men does not apply to Qin Miao.
On the one hand, Qin Miao doesn't drink, and he has a girlfriend. At this time, it is impossible to follow them to do the things that men love to do.
Therefore, the relationship between the two parties progressed very slowly on the first day, but after spending time together on the first day, the two parties became familiar with each other.
The next day, Lubos finally arrived belatedly.
Because Lubos is Qin Miao's physical trainer and was not arranged by the Prema team, the Prema team did not arrange a dormitory for Lubos, and they have no such obligation.
But the problem is not big. Qin Miao and Qiu Meng's dormitory is already large. Even if Qin Miao transforms another room into a room for playing games, there is still an empty room.
After Lubos came over, he happened to be able to sleep here with Qin Miao. Even because he lived with Qin Miao, it was easier for him to supervise Qin Miao's daily training than before.
(End of chapter)
